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Nowhere to go : the tragic odyssey of the homeless mentally ill

Title
Nowhere to go : the tragic odyssey of the homeless mentally ill / E. Fuller Torrey.
Author
Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-
Publication
New York : Harper & Row, ©1988.

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Description
xvi, 256 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Examines the policy of deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and what can be done about it.
Subject
  • Mentally ill > Deinstitutionalization > United States
  • Homeless persons > United States
  • Deinstitutionalization
  • Mental illness
  • Mental health services
  • Deinstitutionalization
  • Ill-Housed Persons > psychology
  • Mental Disorders
  • Mental Health Services
  • mental disorders
  • 44.91 psychiatry, psychopathology
  • Mental illness
  • Mental health services
  • Homeless persons
  • Mentally ill > Deinstitutionalization
  • Obdachlosigkeit
  • Psychisch Kranker
  • Psychisch gestoorden
  • Thuislozen
  • Mentally ill > Care and hygiene
  • Homeless people
  • Psychisch Kranker
  • Obdachlosigkeit
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Dimensions of a disaster -- Making of the "mental health" myth -- "Conchies" and General Hershey create NIMH -- Freud and Buddha join the joint commission -- From the suffering sick to the worried well -- Psychiatrists who would be kings -- Signposts to a grate society -- Where did all the psychiatrists go? -- Politics of perdition: 1968-1988 -- Cicero's conclusion -- Appendix A: Deinstitutionalization of patients from public mental hospitals by state -- Appendix B: Who paid for the seriously mentally ill, 1963 and 1985: an analysis of government fiscal responsibility.
ISBN
  • 0060159936
  • 9780060159931
LCCN
88045065
OCLC
  • ocm18456634
  • 18456634
  • SCSB-1705965
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library